Automotive

About industry

We provide specialty services for the automotive sector and assist the clients in elaborating innovative and effective IPR protection strategies.

 

Fighting illegal imports and production of counterfeited spare parts, suppressing unfair actions of local distributors and service centers, participating in litigation and domain name disputes, registering and managing portfolios of intellectual property rights are just some of the daily issues faced by the automotive industry leaders.

 

Our team has successfully been cooperating with world-renowned automotive brands for many years. Thanks to an individual approach to each client, Mamunya IP is ready to offer unique strategies tailored to the needs and problems of the automaker in a particular area of intellectual property law.

 

Active participation of our lawyers in international specialized IP organizations allows to constantly keep an eye on the nowadays challenges of the automotive industry at the global level as well. At the same time, membership in local leading business associations makes it possible to play an active role in the development and implementation of the Ukrainian legislation, considering the request and needs of the automotive industry.

There is nothing that can’t be done. If you can’t make something, it’s because you haven’t tried hard enough

- Sakichi Toyoda

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do

- Henry Ford

Key contacts

Oleksandr Mamunya

Managing Partner, Patent and Trademark Attorney

Oleksandr Mamunya is an Attorney-at-law and a Patent and Trademark Attorney. Since 2003 Oleksandr has been practicing in the area of Intellectual Property, including patents, trademarks, trade names, designs, copyright, and related rights, domain names, as well as IP enforcement, litigation and anti-counterfeiting. His experience covers litigation and out-of-court dispute resolution, including patents, trademarks, and trade names for major Ukrainian and international companies. In addition, he handles complicated trademark and patent prosecution matters and works on complex IP assignments and licensing deals, and manages big clients’ IP portfolios. Oleksandr works in close cooperation with the Ukrainian PTO and is involved in projects to improve mechanisms of intellectual property rights protection, and in elaborating and implementing IP reform in Ukraine. Oleksandr is a member and active participant of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property ( AIPPI ) (since 2012), the International Trademark Association ( INTA ) (since 2008) (member of the Anticounterfeiting Committee (2022-2025), the Parallel Imports Committee (2017-2021), and the leader of the Case Law Development Working Group (2021), Ukrainian Bar Association ( UBA ) (Chair of IP Committee (since 2017), National Association of Patent Attorneys of Ukraine (admitted to practice as Patent and Trademark Attorney since 2010), European Business Association (since 2012) (Сouncillor of the Agrochemical Committee and Consumer Electronics Committee), Kyiv City Bar Association (admitted to Bar since 2005). Education Ukrainian School for Political Studies, 2016 State Institute of Intellectual Property, 2009 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Academy, 2005 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Law, 2004​

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Ganna Prokhorova

Partner, Attorney-at-law

Ganna Prokhorova is an attorney-at-law, mediator, and arbitrator focused on Intellectual Property, and particularly on trademarks, copyright and designs, unfair competition, and art law. Since 2005 she has been advising well-known domestic and international companies for protection of intangible assets through a combination of monitoring and filing strategies, negotiating and drafting IP assignments, licensing and franchising agreements, as well as judicial and out-of-court remedies against infringements and dilution. Ganna has a profound experience in IP court cases and domain name disputes representing famous international brand owners. She is also regularly engaged in combating counterfeits and protecting plant varieties in Ukraine. Ganna is a WIPO Domain Name Panelist under the UDRP and UA-DRP at WIPO (Geneva, Switzerland), and a URS Examiner at MFSD (Milan, Italy). Ganna is an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA) (Hague, the Netherlands). In addition, she has for a long time been in the leadership of several international and domestic organizations and associations, such as the International Trademark Association ( INTA ) since 2015 (member of the Copyright Committee, the Chair of International & Legislative Subcommittee of the Copyright Committee, 2022-2023 and the Leader of “Works Made for Hire: Review of Legislation and Practice” Task Force covering 60+ countries, 2020-2023, member of the Bulletin Committee – Features, 2018-2019, member of the Anticounterfeiting Committee, 2016-2017), the European Community Trade Mark Association ( ECTA ) (member of the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee, 2019-2022), the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (member since 2016), the Ukrainian National Bar Association ( UNBA ) (member of the IP Committee Board since 2019), the Ukrainian Bar Association ( UBA ) (member since 2006). Ganna is passionate about IP. Her emphatic, dynamic and flexible approach to handling matters, together with the ability to manage and foresee different issues in advance, and the solid network of relations with IP professionals worldwide, are the values appreciated by clients. Education Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 2018 State Institute of Intellectual Property, IP Law, 2016 The Hague Academy of International Law, 2015 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Academy, 2007 Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman (KNEU), Commercial Law, 2006

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Oleksii Lukianov

Senior Associate, Attorney-at-law

Oleksii has been practicing litigation since 2010, most of his professional career he worked with top-tier Ukrainian law firms representing large foreign and domestic companies. He has been working in the field of Intellectual Property since 2013.   His primary focus is Intellectual Property (patent, trademark and copyright) and intangible assets litigation, and anti-counterfeiting. Aside from his courtroom practice Oleksii handled complex licensing projects and IP due diligence in various industry sectors (television, pharmaceuticals, IT, communications, etc.). He is admitted to the Bar and is a member of the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA). His recent highlights include: Representing an international science-centered pharmaceutical company in a litigation case aimed at invalidation of the opponent’s patent for a method of treatment for disseminated sclerosis. Representing one of the biggest NGOs in Ukraine dealing with HIV treatment in a particularly complex patent invalidation litigation. Representing Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer in a large-scale anti-counterfeiting program in Ukraine. Education Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman (KNEU), Law, 2010

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